A young college student, Eustace Bright, gathers a crowd of children around him in the Berkshire hills and retells the old Greek myths in his own lively fashion. Midas and his golden touch, Pandora’s box, Perseus and the Gorgon, Hercules and the golden apples, Baucis and Philemon and Bellerophon on Pegasus all appear, softened and brightened for young listeners.
Hawthorne’s 1851 retellings shaped how generations of American children first met the classical myths. Download the free EPUB.